The Crown urged a jury to convict a Jamaican accused of importing more than $230,000 of cocaine after saying in the post-9/11 world there was no way people would take goods without inspecting them.

Lincoln George Brown, 37, from Rock Valley, Warwick, has pleaded not guilty to charges of importing 939.81 grams of cocaine and possession of drugs with the intent to supply.

Brown was arrested on April 5, 2003, at Bermuda International Airport for allegedly importing cocaine with a street value of around $234,960 which was duct-taped in plastic bags inside the pockets of several pairs of jeans.

In his summing up to the jury, prosecutor Anthony Blackman said: ?This was in 2003. We all know what happened in 2001 after that security took in different heights.?

Mr. Blackman said Brown would have been aware he was carrying the cocaine.

The accused claimed he was given the jeans by a man from Bermuda he knew on nodding terms called Barney at Montego Bay airport who said his girlfriend?s bag was too full to take them.

But Mr. Blackman questioned why Barney didn?t take the jeans himself because he came back a few days later.

He said Brown?s story required considerable coincidence for Barney to turn up at the airport at the precise moment that Brown was about to check in and it was odd that Brown was willing to take the jeans without checking them.

Mr. Blackman questioned why Brown?s girlfriend watched this happen without expressing concern.

He pointed out that an anxious Brown had approached the counter where Detective Sergeant Damon Hollis was working before being called over and was told to get back in the queue.

And at that counter he had said he had packed his bag and that all the goods were old and belonged to him before the drugs were then discovered.

Brown, a construction worker who came to Bermuda when he was 14, has no previous convictions.

Brown?s lawyer Shade Subair again attacked the Police investigation, saying no fingerprint evidence from the bags of cocaine had been brought to the trial. She said: ?In my respectful submission that is unacceptable.?

However Mr. Blackman said it could merely mean there were no fingerprints found as whoever packed them had been careful not to leave any.

Ms Subair said neither officer involved in the case could give a full list of what was in the suitcases. She said Police did little to investigate Barney despite the fact it was a large drugs case.

She said her client, who had admitted to smoking marijuana and who had tried to cheat Customs, might have made a stupid decision but was an innocent man.

On Monday Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons will sum up the case before asking the nine woman, three man jury to give their verdict.